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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

i'll. Spence and Miss Mary Davis, from
near Denison, were united in the bonds of
wedlock while sitting in their carriage,
and surrounded by number of relatives
on both sides. Rev. Holloway performed
the ceremony.
John Locally, a barber, who had volun-
teered to take hand in a family scuffie
in East Dallas, resisted arrest and drew a
nistol on Policeman Keehan, who then
onened fire. shooting him through the
hand and left thigh. The barber stag
qered off and fell in lot of weeds, from
which he was taken to his boarding house.
He will recover.
Early Wednesday morning stone
mason who resides near the lime-kiln, at
Denison, met with an accident that may
result in the amputation OF MS right
hand. Emmons, after killing chicken
with A calibre pistol, hung the weapon
on nail near the looking glass. By some
means the pistol was discharged, the ball
striking the right hand of Mr.. Emmons,
tearing it partly off. A physician was
sent for and the wound dressed.
J.F. Delap was severely injured at
Gainesville, Thursday evening while I'M
loading a car loaded with lumber, at the
compress, by heavy piece of timber fall
ing upon him and pinning him to'the
earth. His companions rescued him from
his unfortunate position as soon as posi-
BILE, and Immediately summoned doctor.
The physician discovered that no bones
were broken, but that his lungs had been
much injured. His condition is preca-
rious but there are strong hopes that he
will be able to pull through.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
Conservative Men.

New YORK, September 23.-The Times
says: Conservative men in financial and
commercial centers applauded the action
of the treasury department in Offering to
buy $14,000,000 of government bonds at a
fixed price. Wall streets reflection of the
action appeared in buoyant stock mar
ket, quotations rising rapidly and ma
terially. Money lenders unbent, too, and
per cent. call money was offered in
abundance. Time money also became
once more possibility. One institution
turned up in Wall street with $1,000,00O
to lend at 6 per cent. on mixed collaterals
for ninety days. Other loans of less con-
sequence were offered and made on about
the same terms. Mercantile houses were
able to place paper on terms far more ad-
vantagously than possible for weeks. The
mercantile effect of the treasury's action
was far reaching. Of course there were
grumblers. Political prejudices and stock
market seltishness induced some carping.
"Whst would have done if 1 were secre-
tary of the treasury" was duly explained
by solons whose valuable assistance an
unappreciative country has somehow
never courted, but the contingent OF
fault-finders was small, compared with
the body Of men who hated the treasury's
action as wise and timely.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
A PEOPLES PRESIDENT.

That Cleveland is essentially and pre-
eminently man of all men to hold the
chief Office in the gift of the people, can
be proved from the following extract
taken from his speech at the banquet
given in Philadelphia at the close of the
centennial celebration of the establish
ment of our national constitution: "On
such day as this, and in the atmosphere
that now surrounds him, feel that the
president of the United States should be
thougtfully modest and humble. The
great office he occupies stands to day in
the presence of its maker; and it is especi.
ally fitting for this servant of the people and
creature of the constitution, amid the i'm
rressive scenes of this centennial occa-
sion, by rigid determination, to be
assured concerning his loyalty and
obedience to the law of his existence. He
will find that the rules prescribed for his
guidance require for the performance of
his duty, not the intellect of attainmen to
which would raise him far above the feel
ing and sentiment of the plain people of
the land, but rather such a knowledge of
their condition and sympathy with their
wants and needs as will bring him near
to them. And though he may be almost
appalled, by the weight of his RESPONSE
bility and the solemnity of his situation,
he cannot fail to find comfort and en-
couragement in the success the fathers of
the constitution wrought from their
simple, patriotic devotion to the rights
and interests of the people. Surely he
may hope that, if reverently invoked, the
spirit which gave the constitution life will
be sufficient for its successful operation
and the accomplishment of its benefcent
purposes"
A man holding such views cannot but
b true servant of the people. man
from among them and doing what he
conceives to be their will and purpose.
Such man deserves a return to power,
and he will surely receive it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
THE PEOPLE TO RULE IN THE CITY AID
MINISTRATION.

An idea there is, SO prevalent in city
governments, that it has not only been
formulated into usage, but has taken
such firm hold that it is reckoned as a
matter prerequisite and as rule of pro-
cedure, that city officials as aldermen and
mayor should be elected, not because of
any peculiar fitness for their respective
positions, but through some deal, by means
of which interested parties hope
to secure future benefits. Applicants
for Offices in the gift of city council
select their candidates and use their best
endeavors to elect them, not because they
think them the best men to serve the city
in that position, but because these appli-
cants expect, through the votes of those
men, when elected aldermen, to secure
some official position. TO such an extent
is this true, that a smile of superclllious
surprise crosses ones face when such
practice is called in question; but is
it right, is it just to the city's interest, is
it in the line of the city's greatest good
and within the purview of the intention
and drift of our incorporating laws? The
selection of city attorney, a marshal or
any other officer, while serious an i'm
portant duty, is, by no manner of means,
consideration that should guide in the
formation of a city council. These Sc
lections are single duty such that, when
performed, the matter is finished
of the officers elected. But
the peculiar function of the city council
is to look after and guard every interest
of the city. To take care of thousand
affairs not coming under the control of
the city officials they elect, affairs con-
stantly, and ofttimes unexpectedly arts
ing and demanding instant attention.
come home to every citizen, reach every
dwelling in the city. And for this reason
it Is the great body of the people, not
some few Office seekers, who should select
and elect by their interested efforts the
members of the city's administration.
The sooner the people ponder these facts
and act upon these cardinal truths, the
sooner will Austin have an able, efficient
and progressive city administration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
PROHIBITION IN TENNESSEE.

The struggle in Tennessee over prohibi.
ton is, with the exception of few fea
lures, pretty much the same as it was in
Texas. AS the end rapidly approaches
interest heightens in a contest as init
mately connected with the welfare of the
people of Tennessee as it deeply affected
that of the commonwealth of Texas. The
people of Tennessee are asked whether
they will follow the example of their
Georgia neighbors, or whether they shall
retain their personal and individual lib
erty.
To all human appearances prohibition
is doomed to defeat in Tennessee, but
whether by such an overwhelming and
crushing majority as Texas gave, is ex-
tremely doubtful.
In this state, ecclesiasticism and the ap-
pearance of women in the political arena
helped to deal the death blow to prohibit
ton. In Tennessee it is likely to do the
same thing. In this state the alliance of
the political preachers and the women
with the movement alarmed the great
mass of voters, who did not want to trust
themselves either to female influence in
politics or to the dangers of ecclesiastical
power in secular spheres.
1t is hardly likely the people of Ten
nessee have any greater fancy for the in
PRODUCTION of these two new forces in
politics than we of Texas had. There,
as here, both are prominent and dis
tinguishing feature of the prohibition
party. The result in Tennessee will, with
out doubt, have great influence on the
destiny of prohibition in the near future.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
OFFICIAL STUPIDITY,

blind and amazing faulty appears to
have seized on the health authorities of
New York City, in the matter of the
cholera steamship Alesia. More than
likely the health, not only of that metro
polls, but of the whole country, possibly
hundreds of thousands of lives, are in
volved in the arrival of the Alesia on our
shores. Yet the crew and passengers of
the infected ship are to be landed on
dotGan island, there to remain one week
The inference is they are then to be per-
mitted to enter the city, fresh from the
contagion on board the Alesia, and many
of them having fled from the epidemic in
Italy. Nothing is said rs to whether they
are TO take their infected clothes and other
effects along with them. Possibly these
latter may undergo the process of
fumigation, which is, at best
an uncertain way of destroy
ing the microbes, either of cholera
or yellow fever. In fact, its efficacy has
never been absolutely and beyond doubt
demonstrated.
Then, again, in the face of the weeks
quarantine of infected passengers on
Hoffman island, as stated in the dis
patches this morning, the health officers
of New York are quoted as saying the
germs of the disease are of the hiberna-
ting variety, would live through the
winter and develop in the spring."
If SO, and the cholera microbe is liable to
develop next year, after lying dormant
through the winter months; if, then they
are capable of starting and sustaining an
epidemic, it would certainly be a paying
business to turn the Alesia and her pas
sengers, and all other vessels from
cholera infected localities, adrift
on the ocean and keep them
away from our shores altogether
We should tax, r7 .rauce- 40 cholera.
The recent discoveries OF Koch and
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
CRLOROFORMING.
Can Burglars Chloroform Sleen,no
People?

Oan burglars Chloroform Sleeping
People?
From the Analyst
A correspondent asks this ouestion ond
were we to answer from our peneral
knowledge obtained from reading the
newspaper accounts of burglaries and
ropoerles committed while the inmates of
the house are fast asleep, or base our
opinion on the very uncertain KNOWLEDGE
derived from reading novels, we shouId
answer in the affirmative. Our KNOWLEDGE
OF the characteristics of chloroform.
ana Its physiological action on the
human system, however, makes us answer
decidedly In the negative. This is prob
ably question about which it would he
difficult to convince the public, but facts
are very stubborn things. Careful in
qulrles among detectives and police
authorities have failed to show one single
instance where these officials after careful
examination, have become personally
convinced that persons robbed have been
chloroformed. All have heard of such
cases, but none has come within his
own knowledge. Having so far con-
WINGED ourselves that these cases
do not occur, we will look a little further.
and try to prove that chloroforming per-
son while asleep is impossible for sound
physiological reasons. Chloroform, as all
physicians know, is a decided cerebral
stimulant; that is, it is really conceI-
trated alcohol, administered by inhalation
and induces intoxioation. All physicians
who have ever administered chloroform to
a patient know what resistance they en-
countered. Any sleeping adult not under
the intiU of a powerful hypnotic, would
certainly be awakened if an attempt were
made to make him inhale chloroform.
Besides all this, we are always told
that the persons who were chloroformed
and robbed recovered. Every physician
knows that I'm ess chloroform is carefully
administered with proper admixture Of
atmospheric air, the patient dies. Now
why should a subject in the hands of an
ignorant burglar, inhaling chloroform,
have better chance of recovery than
patient in the experienced hands of
several skilled and trained physicians who
have previously examined the action Of
his heart, who cautiously watch his pulse
and closely adjust the amount and quality
of the chloroform and atmospheric air
administered. And yet we hear constantly
of deaths by the administration of
chloroform in physicians hands, but
never death when given by thieves. Fur
Their than this, we are told that burglars
can administer chioroform to several
persons sleeping in the same room and
produce anesthesia. Of course, it would
be sheer nonsense to talk of burglars i'm
ORIGINATING the entire atmosphere of an
apartment with chloroform, for that would
necessitate many hours labor with an
atomizer, supply of more chloroform
than burglars would carry, and would
leave the air irrespirable by the thieves.
These statements, which any physician
will confirm, we think, prove clearly that
chloroforming by burglars is popular
myth.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
sENsATIoNALIsM CoNTRADIoTED.

The Galveston News appears to have
published a false statement of the gale at
Brownsville. The mayor of that town
telegraphs the Associated Press to con-
tradict the statements made regarding the
storm. There was little damage he says.
Now just why moderate atmospheric
perturbation should be magnitied into a
tremendous hurricane, dealing destruc-
ton everywhere, IS hard to imagine. Such
misstatements are morally wrong, as we'll
as bad policy for newspaper equally with
an individual. When the News has an &C.
count of real hurricane people won't be-
lieve it. Tell the truth and nothing but
the truth, is the best policy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
When Baby was sick, we gavo her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castor;a
when she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she rave them Castoria
A High Tribute,

A Texas gentleman travelling in a Pull
man palace car in Pennsylvania happened
to say he was from the Lone Star state.
"Do you live in the western portion of
the statef" asked man opposite.
81 do"
"In Tom Green county,"
That's my county"
"Live near Carson?"
That's my town"
Perhaps you know my brother, William
Henry JOnes!"
know himI Gimme your hand.
stranger. helped hang William Henry
the night before / left. He was a horse
thief but good one. Texas Siftings.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

DE-. DANIELS article breathes the enthu.
siasm of devoted disciple of the Escu,
lspian art, and an ardent Deliver in the
possibilities projected by the mastery
strides already made in his noble profes,
sion. When such day arrives, when the
healing art becomes a matter of SANTA
tion," rather than of "cure," then with
such surcesse from sorrow, this world
would be too good and happy place for
common mortals. That day would be
such a foretaste of the future life, it
would inspire dread and warning of
the collapse of time, and the ushering in
of eternity, a dread that would dull half
the edge of happy life. But such a day
is far out beyond our little span of time,
and in the interest OF humanity, suffering
all around uF, we bid science, with its dis
coycIiCs in the tu,atmsat % tas ~ o.
fallen man, God speed in g. noble eaorts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

A FEW days ago the money kings OF
Wall street thought they had corner on
the market, and they did. Millions were
locked up, and things looked like an ap-
preaching crisis In this moment of peril
10 all but the Shyiocks, the government
stepped in and offered to relieve the
scarcity of money by buying fourteen
millions of government bonds at a fixed
price. The money kings saw their game
was blocked, turned loose their gold again
and the danger was averted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

other medical philosophers have revolu-
tionized all previous ideas of cholera.
The old theory of origination in filth
and foul air, and in those conditions only,
has been exploded. We now know it to
be- contagion dependent on migratory
and transmissible microscopic, living or
ganism, and the only way not to become
infected is to keep it at distance.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
Centennial Ode.

Hail, Freedom! thy bright crest
And cleaning shield, thrice blessed,
Mirror the glories of a world thine own;
Hail, heaven born peacel Our sight
Led by thy gentle light
Shows Us thy paths with deathlsss flowers stroWn
Peace, daughter of 8 rife sublime,
Abide with till strife be lost in endless time.
CHoRUs-Thy sun is risen, and shall not sc
Upon thy day divine!
Ages of unborn ages yet,
America, are thine!
Her one hand eeals with gold
The portals of nights fold,
Her other the broad gates of dawn unbars;
Ger silent wastes of SHOWS,
Growing her lofty brows,
Cleans high her diadem of northern stars;
While clothed in garlauds of warm flowers,
Round Freedoms feet the South her wealth o
beauty showers.
Sweet ia the toll of peace,
Sweet the years increase,
To loyal men who live by Freedom laws;
And in wars fierce alarms
God gives stout hearts and arms
To treemen sworn to save righttul cause,
Fear none, trust God, maintain the right,
And triumph in unbroken unions peerless might
This stanza is intended only for the cen
tennial.)
Welded in wars fierce flame,
Forged on the hearth of fame,
The sacred constitution was ordained;
Tried in the fire of time,
Tempered in woes sublime,
An age has passed and left 1t yet unstained.
God grant its glories still may shine
While ages fade forgotten in times slow decline
Honor the few who shared
Freedoms first fight, and dared
To face wars desperate tide at the full flood
Who fell on hard won ground,
And into Freedoms wound
Poured the sweet balsam of their brave hearts
blood
They fell, but DER their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the casue they died &c
save
In radiance heavenly fair
Floats on the peaceful air
That flag that never stopped from victory e
pride;
Those stars that softly CLEAN,
Those stripes that DER us stream,
In wars grand agony were sanctiheu;
A holy standard, pure and free,
10 light the home of peace or blaze in victory
Father, whose mighty power
Shields us through lite's short hour,
To Thee we pray; bless us and keep us free;
All that Is past forgive,
Teach us henceforth to live,
That through our country we may honor Thee;
And, when this mortal life shall cease,
Take Thou at last souls to Thine eternal peace.
SORRENTO, August 1, 1887
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The congressional commission to in
vsstigate Huntington, Stanford and the
Central Pacific, confess to borrowing
$4,000 from that corporation to get out
of San Francisco on. No wonder there
was loophole left for the Investigated
parties. "Money rules the court, the
camp, the grave" and very nearly every
thing else on this mundane sphere.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

In his remarks concerning the proposed
new University, which is to commemorate
his son, Senator Stanford, in an interview
yesterday, said the institution was inten-
ded alone for the poor. A rich man can
sometimes be philanthropist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
A Medical Bigemlst .

CLEVELAND, September 24.-Dr. George
A. Heuniger, well-known physician, was
arrested here to-day and locked up lot
bigamy. He has two wives il is charges
one on the west and the other one on the
east side of the city.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29

O'BRIEN has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment for alleged sedi-
ton, but which was really nothing more
than free speech.
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Too Late.

If Bacon ever had O claim
To place his great though swinsh name
On Shakespeare's grand creations,
Beyond the shadow of doubt
'Tis now most thoroughly shut out
By the statute of limitations.
How the old statute, good and stout,
Keeps one bard in and one barred outl
Chicago Tribune.
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IT is reported Gould is going abroad
for the winter. Possibly it is only
another rumor to affect the stock market.
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ENaLANDs iron hand begins to appear
in Irish affairs.
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